A recent question in the Hortonworks Community mentioned someone using Hadoop in a virtualized environment with EMC’s Isilon NAS (Network Attached Storage). While this may be a valid use case for some anyone who is looking at Hadoop as more than small number crunching cluster(s) will have to reflect on this approach. Here are some ...
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Big data architecture paradigms are commonly separated into two (supposedly) diametrical models, the more traditional batch and the (near) real-time processing. The most popular technologies representing the two are Hadoop with MapReduce and Storm. However, a hybrid solution, the Lambda Architecture, challenges the idea that these approaches have to exclude each other. The Lambda Architecture combines ...
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